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There are already more than half a million Amiga owners in the UK and by early next year, there could be as many as 700,000. Very soon, Commodore will be launching a CD-ROM drive as an add-on for the Amiga: they say September, so it might be with us before Christmas. If they can price it right and convince a good proportion of Amiga owners to buy a CD-ROM drive, it gives them an instant market for CDTV software. This instantly makes it worthwhile for software houses to spend money developing the titles, secure in the knowledge that somebody will buy them. An added bonus is that you people are used to paying £25 or £30 for a game (CD-based titles won’t generally be any more expensive than yer normal floppy disk stuff) whereas the general public pays about a tenner for a video or a music CD. The only figures Commodore have for how many Amiga owners will buy a CD-ROM drive are from the results of the survey in Issue "16 of Amiga Format. You, our readers, are already making Commodore’s policy for them worldwide, including setting the price of the CD-ROM drive. So what are the figures? Well, when asked “Would you like to upgrade your Amiga system to run CDTV software?” 98% of you said Yes. That’s well in excess of 100,000 potential CD-ROM buyers, even if you only take Amiga Format readers: if you extrapolate that to all the Amiga owners in the UK, it could be five times that. Now listen up: by contrast, Commodore UK are only expecting to sell 80-90,000 CDTVs in its first year! When asked how much you would be prepared to pay to upgrade your Amiga, 50% of you said £300 or more and 38% said about £200, so you should expect Commodore to be aiming for about £250. So remember: the future of CDTV depends on you, the Amiga Format reader. All you have to do now is decide whether or not the software is worth the extra £250.